**Meet the editor**

Dr. Yashwant Kumar is currently working as an officer in-charge of the National Salmonella and Escherichia Centre and Diagnostic Reagents Manufacturing Laboratory at the Central Research Institute, Kasauli (HP), India. He has more than 13 years of experience in epidemiology, surveillance, bacterial characterization, determination of antibiogram profiles, virulence factors,

characterization of resistance markers, etc. He is also involved in academic programs and has supervised postgraduate and doctoral students during their research studies. Dr. Kumar has 27 publications in national and international peer-reviewed journals. He is also the editor of a book and other publications such as abstracts and a reviewer for a number of national and international journals. He has been trained in instrumental methods for drug analysis, advanced techniques in molecular biology and microbial technology, and biorisk management. He is a member of WHO-GFN (Global Foodborne Infections Network) and BIS for diagnostics, and he has also acted as an expert member for a project approved by DSIR.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Kumar

**Resistance 33**

Frank Boateng Osei

**Treatment Plants 75**

Carmen Dana Sandru

**Resistance 113**

**Challenges and Solutions 1**

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Stepping into the Post-Antibiotic Era—**

Chapter 2 **Antimicrobial Resistance of Common Zoonotic Bacteria in the**

Chapter 3 **Antibiotic Use in Poultry Production and Its Effects on Bacterial**

Yenizey M. Álvarez-Cisneros and Edith Ponce-Alquicira

**Food Chain: An Emerging Threat 13**

Chapter 4 **Antibiotic Resistance in Lactic Acid Bacteria 53**

Chapter 5 **Development of Antibiotic Resistance in Wastewater**

Chapter 6 **Multidrug Resistance in Zoonotic Pathogens: Are Medicinal**

Marina Spinu, Mihaela Niculae, Silvana Popescu, Emoke Pall and

Ayorinde O. Afolayan, Adewale Adetoye and Funmilola A. Ayeni

Fateme Barancheshme and Mariya Munir

**Plants a Therapeuthic Alternative? 93**

Chapter 7 **Beneficial Microbes: Roles in the Era of Antimicrobial**

Neelam Taneja, Shveta Sethi, Ajay Kumar Tahlan and Yashwant

Vita Rozman, Bojana Bogovič Matijašić and Sonja Smole Možina

Christian Agyare, Vivian Etsiapa Boamah, Crystal Ngofi Zumbi and
